Bloomberg Toronto, a city of more than 6.5 million people, has just 3,200 homes left for sale to start the year after a real-estate frenzy fuelled by low interest rates drove the market to record levels. More than 121,000 homes were sold in Canada’s biggest city in 2021, up 28% from the previous year and smashing the previous high …

  Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp plans to issue its biggest-ever yen bond in a test of whether individual investors will continue to lap up notes of one of the world’s most indebted firms. Billionaire Masayoshi Son’s technology conglomerate is marketing 550 billion yen ($4.8 billion) of seven-year subordinated notes, with the proceeds used to repay debt. The company has more …

  Bloomberg US equity-index futures rise and the dollar fell as risk-taking returned to markets at the end of a turbulent week, with investors weighing US employment gains against the Federal Reserve’s policy-tightening plans. March contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index advanced 0.2%, after falling as much as 0.6%. S&P 500 futures also climbed 0.2%. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index …